The Fight Against the Racists
Object
Pamphlet
Production date
1976
Object number
2013.264
Physical Description
Socialist Worker pamphlet, 'the fight against the racists: The nazional front and how to smash it'
Material
Paper
Dimension
Length (Front): 300mm
Width (Front): 208mm
Width (Front): 208mm
Exhibition Label
The Fight Against the Racists
Organisations promoting racist views found popular support in Hackney. During the 1950s and 1960s, British fascist politician Oswald Mosley used the area as his political base, with the headquarters of his British Union of Fascists in Ridley Road. Meetings were regularly held there preaching racist and anti-Semitic sentiments.
The National Front, a far-right political party opposed to non-White immigration, had its headquarters on Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch from 1978 to the
early 1980s. Political unrest and racism was felt across the borough. Local resident Savitri Hensman expressed this in her
poetry.
People Power: Black British Arts & Activism in Hackney 1960s - 2000s
Organisations promoting racist views found popular support in Hackney. During the 1950s and 1960s, British fascist politician Oswald Mosley used the area as his political base, with the headquarters of his British Union of Fascists in Ridley Road. Meetings were regularly held there preaching racist and anti-Semitic sentiments.
The National Front, a far-right political party opposed to non-White immigration, had its headquarters on Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch from 1978 to the
early 1980s. Political unrest and racism was felt across the borough. Local resident Savitri Hensman expressed this in her
poetry.
People Power: Black British Arts & Activism in Hackney 1960s - 2000s
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a Socialist Worker pamphlet, 10p 'the fight against the racists: The nazional front and how to smash it'